The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume 2 |
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actors ALBARO America Angus Fletcher beautiful BONCHURCH Broadstairs Carol carriage chapter character Charles Dickens Christmas book Christmas Carol Chuzzlewit close Copperfield course daughter dear delight Devonshire-terrace Dickens's dinner Dombey doubt England English fancy feel French Gamp Geneva GENOA George Cruikshank give heart Heaven hope humour incident interest Italian Italy Kate kind lady last night LAUSANNE Leech letter living LONDON look Lord Maclise Macready Mark Lemon Martin Chuzzlewit Master Humphrey's Clock matter ment mind Mont Blanc months morning mountain never Paris party passed Pecksniff Peschiere play pleasant poor present RADICOFANI Ragged schools round scene seen sketch STAIRS Stanfield story streets Switzerland tale Talfourd tell theatre thing thought tion to-day told turned Venice walk week wife wonderful write written wrote yesterday
Popular passages
Page 99 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 92 - Who can listen to objections regarding such a book as this? It seems to me a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it a personal kindness. The last two people I heard speak of it were women. Neither knew the other, or the author ; and both said by way of criticism,
Page 131 - Oh, my dear dear Dickens ! what a No. 5 you have now given us ! I have so cried and sobbed over it last night, and again this morning ; and felt my heart purified by those tears, and blessed and loved you for making me shed them ; and I never can bless and love you enough.
Page 86 - Mrs. Gamp,' she says, in answer, ' if ever there was a sober creetur to be got at eighteen pence a day for working people, and three and six for gentlefolks — night watching,' " said Mrs. Gamp, with emphasis, " 'being a extra charge — you are that inwallable person.
Page 218 - I really think I have an idea, and not a bad one, for the periodical. I have turned it over, the last two days, very much in my mind ; and think it positively good. I incline still to weekly ; price three halfpence, if possible ; partly original, partly select ; notices of books, notices of theatres, notices of all good things, notices of all bad ones ; Carol philosophy, cheerful views, sharp anatomization of humbug, jolly good temper ; papers always in season, pat to the time of year ; and a vein...
Page 153 - Put me down on Waterloo Bridge at eight o'clock in the evening, with leave to roam about as long as I like, and I would come home, as you know, panting to go on. I am sadly strange as it is, and can't settle.
Page 200 - It was no more my Rome : the Rome of anybody's fancy, man or boy : degraded and fallen and lying asleep in the sun among a heap of ruins : than the Place de la Concorde in Paris is.
Page 25 - Cant as we may, and as we shall to the end of all things, it is very much harder for the poor to be virtuous than it is for the rich; and the good that is in them shines the brighter for it.
Page 45 - I know nothing that is so affecting — nothing in any book I have ever read — as Mildred's recurrence to that " I was so young — I had no mother...
Page 246 - The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger, of Blunderstone Rookery, which he never meant to be published on any account.